Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. The discovery in 2010 that early humans and Neanderthals had once interbred was a scientific bombshell. It revealed a genetic legacy that has since been found to play a role in modern humans’ lives, affecting… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. 75,000 years ago, a woman in her 40s was buried in a cave and left to rest in a hole that could accommodate her body. His left hand was folded under his head, and a… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. 75,000 years ago, a woman in her 40s was buried in a cave and left to rest in a hole that could accommodate her body. His left hand was folded under his head, and a… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a supereruption, one of the largest eruptions in Earth history, potentially leading to a major disruption in the world’s climate. Some scientists suspect that the volcanic winter… Read More »
Researchers unearthed ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.Tim Schüler / TLDA Human bones from a German cave that housed Homo Sapiens in Europe were discovered 7,500 years earlier than experts thought. The findings show that Homo sapiens lived near Neanderthals for millennia, which is a new discovery. Previously, scientists thought… Read More »
An employee of the Natural History Museum in London looks at a model of a Neanderthal man.Will Oliver/PA Images/Getty Until recently, there was consensus that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens were separate species. But most people carry around 2% of Neanderthal DNA, challenging the notion that we are different. Other research suggests that Neanderthals were not… Read More »